Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldierā
General Douglas MacArthur"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
Robert Spencer : The practice has foundations in the Hadith. āFrom Kashmir to Ram Navami: Quranic sanctions to āstoningā the Devil and targeting of Kaafirs,ā OpIndia, April 11, 2022:
Much like stone-pelting was used
as an instrument of defiance against security forces in Kashmir, it was
and has been routinely used to target Hindu processions when they pass
through neighbourhoods that are now being referred to by the liberal
intelligentsia as āMuslim areasā, which is nothing but a contemporary
manifestation of the divisive Two-nation theory. Processions, carrying
deities, often come under a volley of stones, followed by arson attacks,
vandalism and violence, under the garb that they played devotional
songs and hymns that āprovokedā the other side.
This was witnessed
during the recent Hindu New Year celebrations in the Karauli district
of Rajasthan where a Hindu procession, which was carried out after more
than 7 years, witnessed stone-pelting and a wanton bout of violence and
vandalism. Earlier yesterday, Ram Navami celebrations came under attack in
5 different Indian States, namely, Gujarat, West Bengal, Jharkhand,
Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka. They were allegedly orchestrated by
frenzied mobs, who were armed with stones and sticks, and determined to
stop the Hindu processions from advancing through their āMuslim areasāā¦.
